Re: raid 0 - shot in the dark

2008-01-28 Thread Cameron Childress
I'd suggest calling a data recovery service and just asking them what they recommend. Sometimes they will give you a few tips and they might prevent you from doing further damage to the drive. I'm not familiar with putting drives in the freezer as a solution, but I know that making devices to

Re: raid 0 - shot in the dark

2008-01-28 Thread morchella
no. i will be spending the next 3 weeks in the server room offsite, pretending i know how to set up test, and staging... so i am going to try chucking it in the freezer over night, and see if that does any thing. On Jan 28, 2008 6:52 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > M- Did you e

Re: raid 0 - shot in the dark

2008-01-28 Thread Cameron Childress
M- Did you ever get this drive running again? Last time I had a catastrophic failure on a valuable drive it was about $200 to get a recovery service to give me an estimate on recovery (and I had to send it out of state via UPS). James Smith wrote: > You can't. Raid 0 is a striped set so if a d

RE: raid 0 - shot in the dark

2008-01-28 Thread James Smith
You can't. Raid 0 is a striped set so if a drive fails you have lost 1/4 of the data from each file on the array and no single drive contains any complete files. Sorry. If it is the drives controller that has gone you can try swapping the electronics from a good drive onto the failed one but in m